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ALFRED BICKERSTETH COOK spent over thirty years abroad. | ALFRED BICKERSTETH COOK spent over thirty years abroad. | ||
He went first to the United States, after serving a pupilage with the [[ | He went first to the United States, after serving a pupilage with the [[Stratford Works|Great Eastern Railway]] at Stratford, and spent two years in the shops and drawing office of a New York railroad company. | ||
He then joined the [[Central Argentine Railway]] and rose to the position of assistant locomotive, carriage and wagon superintendent, which he occupied for ten years. | He then joined the [[Central Argentine Railway]] and rose to the position of assistant locomotive, carriage and wagon superintendent, which he occupied for ten years. | ||
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Alfred Bickersteth Cook ( -1928)
1929 Obituary [1]
ALFRED BICKERSTETH COOK spent over thirty years abroad.
He went first to the United States, after serving a pupilage with the Great Eastern Railway at Stratford, and spent two years in the shops and drawing office of a New York railroad company.
He then joined the Central Argentine Railway and rose to the position of assistant locomotive, carriage and wagon superintendent, which he occupied for ten years.
In 1901 he took charge of the foreign department of the Brush Electrical Engineering Company, and negotiated electrical concessions at Shanghai, Rangoon, Bombay, Athens, etc.
In 1911 he joined Messrs. John Birch and Company of London, and was for one year in charge of their branch at Kobe, Japan.
From 1915 to 1923 he took charge of the engineering branch of Messrs. Sale and Company of London, and in the latter year was appointed secretary to Messrs. Railless.
Upon the purchase of that company by Messrs. Short Brothers he became engineering salesman.
For the last four years of his life he was export manager for Messrs. Alexander Duckham and Company.
He died on 13th January 1929, in his sixty-eighth year.
Mr. Cook became a Member of the Institution in 1904.